Philip Gibbs
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Sir Philip Gibbs | |
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Born | Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs 1 May 1877 London, England, UK |
Died | 10 March 1962 Godalming, Surrey, UK | (aged 84)
Occupation | Journalist, novelist, memoirist |
Nationality | British |
Period | 1899–1957 |
Relatives | A. Hamilton Gibbs (brother) Cosmo Hamilton (brother) |
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs
Early life
The son of a civil servant, Gibbs was born in
Career
His debut article was published in 1894 in the
The Times, in 1940 referring to 1909, credited Gibbs for "bursting the bubble with one cable to the London newspaper he was representing". The bubble in question was the September 1909 claim by American explorer Frederick Cook to have reached the North Pole in April 1908. Gibbs didn't trust Cook's "romantic" impressions of his journey into the ice.[3]
His first attempt at semi-fiction was published in 1909 as The Street of Adventure, which recounted the story of the official
He wrote about the
It was not long before the
Gibbs was not long out of official favour, however. Along with four other men he was officially accredited as a
In The Realities of War Gibbs exacted a form of revenge for the frustration he suffered in submitting to wartime censorship; published after the armistice, the book gave an account of his personal experiences in war-torn Europe, painting a most unflattering portrait of Sir
Gibbs' post-war career continued to be as varied as ever. Embarking shortly after the war upon a lecture tour of the U.S. he also secured the first journalistic interview with a Pope. [citation needed]
Working as a freelance journalist, having resigned from the Daily Chronicle over its support for the
Gibbs' 1937 book Ordeal In England was a study of poverty and also an
The outbreak of the
Death
Gibbs died at Godalming, in the county of Surrey on 10 March 1962.
Works
A list of books by Gibbs.[8]
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Film adaptations
Several of his books were adapted as movies.[9]
- 1921, The Street of Adventure
- 1925, Venetian Lovers
- 1925, The City of Temptation
- 1926, High Steppers, based on the novel Heirs Apparent
- 1926, The Reckless Lady
- 1928, Paradise, based on The Crossword Puzzle
- 1928, Out of the Ruins
- 1929, Darkened Rooms
- 1933, Captured!, based on the story "Fellow Prisoners"
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary
- ^ Philip Gibbs' religion, catholicherald.co.uk, 25 June 1982; accessed 11 April 2014.
- ^ The Times, 6 August 1940, p. 7.
- ISBN 978-0-85052-551-9.
- ^ Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain. Susan Kingsley Kent (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993, p.99
- ^ "No. 31840". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 March 1920. p. 3759.
- ^ ISBN 9780007240760(p. 384).
- ^ "Philip Gibbs Books". Biblio.
- ^ "Philip Gibbs". IMDb. 2017.
Further reading
- Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, H. W. Wilson Company, 1942.
External links
- Works by Philip Gibbs at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Philip Gibbs at Internet Archive
- Works by Philip Gibbs at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by Philip Gibbs at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Portraits of Philip Gibbs in the National Portrait Gallery, London (Photographs Collection 31 hits, Reference Collection 1)
- Philip Gibbs at Library of Congress, with 138 library catalogue records
- Newspaper clippings about Philip Gibbs in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW